Senior Rigging Artist

1 Month ago • 3 Years + • Rigging

Job Summary

Job Description

Lakshya Digital, a Keywords Studios company, is seeking experienced Rigging Artists to join their team and contribute to AAA game titles. The role involves creating custom biped, quadruped, facial, and mechanical rigs, demonstrating good knowledge of anatomy, and proficiency in Maya and 3DS MAX. Responsibilities include studying task specifications, seeking clarification, estimating effort, and ensuring high-quality work with minimal QC errors. Artists should be comfortable working with minimal guidance in a team environment and possess good communication and problem-solving skills. The company offers the opportunity to work on renowned game titles, competitive salaries, bonuses, generous paid time off, insurance, and employee assistance programs.
Must have:
  • 3+ years of experience in character setup/rigging
  • Custom biped, quadruped, facial, mechanical rigs
  • Proficient in Maya and 3DS MAX
  • Good knowledge of anatomy
  • Understanding of game art pipeline
  • Work with minimal guidance
  • Good communication and problem-solving skills
Good to have:
  • Background in visual arts/design
  • Skills in modeling, texturing
  • Passionate gamer
  • MEL & Python scripting knowledge
Perks:
  • Work on best-known game titles
  • Competitive salaries
  • Annual performance-based bonuses
  • Generous paid time off (26 days + year-end holidays)
  • Term Insurance
  • Personal accidental insurance
  • Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Special Education Assistance Scheme

Job Details

Lakshya, a Keywords Studios company, in India is headquartered in Gurgaon and has a team of over 700 employees spread across studio facilities in Gurgaon, Pune and Seattle, and sales offices in San Diego and Tokyo. Setup in 2004, Lakshya has, over the last 20 years, created a reputation in the game development industry for being a highly talented and dependable game art studio. During this time, Lakshya has created art for over a hundred game titles, including hugely successful global hits such as Bloodborne, Dark Souls II, Just Cause 3, WWE 2K16, Uncharted 2, Farmville and Cityville. Lakshya’s senior team, which comprises of top-notch International and Indian talent, has a huge amount of experience of creating art for different game platforms and genres. Lakshya blends artistic creativity with strong process orientation in order to deliver best in class services. Lakshya works closely with NASSCOM to help in the growth of the game development eco-system in India.

For more info, please refer to https://lakshyadigital.com/ 

Lakshya Digital, a Keywords Studio is looking for experienced Rigging Artists to join our team and work on AAA game Titles.

1. A graduate with working experience of more than 3+ years in character setup / rigging
2. Able to build custom biped, quadruped, facial and mechanical rigs
3. Good knowledge of anatomy for both human/biped and animal/quadruped
4. Equally proficient in Maya and 3DS MAX
5. Good understanding of the game art creation pipeline
6. Candidates should be able to work with minimal guidance and be comfortable working in a team environment.
7. Self-motivated, good communications skills and problem-solving abilities.
8. Background in visual arts/design with a strong understanding of form, geometry and movement.
9. Artists who have skills in other functional areas (modeling, texturing etc.)
10. Passionate gamer with experience playing a wide range of video games.
11.Basic Knowledge of MEL & Python scripting.

Responsibilities

1. Study the task specifications and client brief thoroughly before initiating estimation or commencing work on tasks. Understand the information provided and highlight to the Lead any missing or contradictory information.

2. Provide a list of queries to the Lead to seek clarification on the task allocated. Ensure that maximum clarity is achieved regarding the specifications, art direction and approach for a task before commencing work on it.

3. Work closely with the Lead to arrive at appropriate effort estimates for tasks.

4. Ensure that there is no ambiguity or confusion regarding any aspect (specifications, timelines etc.) of the task in hand. Should not make any unwarranted assumptions. Should red flag to the Lead/sub-Lead any confusion or ambiguity.

5. Before commencing work on the task, ensure that there is clear identification of the approach to be taken to create the task as well as daily work completion targets and the same have been discussed with the Lead/sub-Lead before finalization.

6. Collect adequate and appropriate references before commencing work.

7. Create controls for animation. Rigging and skinning of characters and props

8. Provide daily update of task status to Lead/sub-Lead.

9. Adopt organization mandated Best Practices and Work Processes while working on a task.

10. Deliver high quality work with zero QC errors and resulting in minimal iteration. Diligently check task against checklist to ensure that the task complies with all specifications.

  • We offer the opportunity to work on some of the best-known game titles in the world.
  • We offer competitive salaries and annual performance-based bonuses.
  • We offer generous paid time off. You get 26 Annual leaves and additional paid time off at the year-end (from 25th December to 1st January).
  • We cover Term Insurance and Personal accidental insurance for you.
  • Benefit from our free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental and emotional wellbeing.
  • You can also avail our Special Education Assistance Scheme to further develop your career.
  • … And a lot more!

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About The Company

With key talent located in four countries across three continents, Lakshya is dedicated to discovering talent and delivering exciting and fulfilling careers in digital art production. As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to work with an experienced, international team of game artists, master cutting-edge tools and contribute to some of the highest profile game titles in development from across the US, Japan and Europe.

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